Many
SDAs are trying to gain acceptance as part of the orthodox Bible based
Christian community. However, the following points show them not to
hold the "faith once delivered to the saints". Jude 3.

These false doctrines of Seventh-day
Adventism warn people to not join up with SDAs, or to leave SDA if
they are already involved.

1. THE SABBATH

SDAs insist that we must keep the Sabbath
as a day of worship. This is wrong because:

a) The New Testament never commands
Christians to worship or meet on the Saturday Sabbath. Instead,
Christians are recorded as meeting on the first day of the week,
Sunday, in the following Bible passages:

1. 1 Corinthians 16:1-2 -- to put
money in the collection.

2. Acts 20:7 -- Paul preached to
Christians at Troas whose habit was to meet to break bread on
the first day of the week.

3. John 20:19, 26 -- Jesus, after
His resurrection met with the disciples on the first day of the
week.

4. Romans 14:5-6 -- Paul, when
discussing which day to meet, did not say that you must meet on
the Saturday Sabbath, (as SDAs say), but he said "Let every
man be fully persuaded in his own mind."

5. Colossians 2:16-17 -- "Let
no man judge you in ... holy days or Sabbath days: which are a
shadow of things to come."

SDAs judge Christians wrong who
keep Sunday as a holyday. Paul says that SDAs are wrong to judge
Christians for not keeping Saturday as a holy day.

b) SDAs claim that the Roman Catholic
church after Constantine in 320 AD changed the day of worship from
Saturday to Sunday. This is completely false, because we have at
least ten quotes from major church writers from 90 -- 300 AD who
all say that the practice of Christians everywhere was to meet on
Sunday, not the Jewish Saturday Sabbath. SDAs have no early quotes
to show that early Christians met on Saturday.

2. SOUL SLEEP

SDAs deny that believers on death go
to heaven. They say that believers go to soul sleep in the grave until
Christ's return. JW's, Christadelphians and other false groups believe
this error.

The main verses disproving the soul
sleep error are:

1. Philippians 1:23 -- "I am
in a straight betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and TO BE
WITH CHRIST; which is far better."

2. 2 Corinthians 5:8 -- "To
be absent from the body (death), and to be PRESENT WITH THE LORD."
(in heaven)

3. Hebrews 12:1 -- "We are surrounded
by so great a cloud of WITNESSES". (The departed believers
discussed in Hebrews 11)

4. Hebrews 12:23-24 -- "The
heavenly Jerusalem ... the church of the firstborn, which are written
in heaven and to the SPIRITS of just men made perfect".

5. 1 Thessalonians 4:14 -- "Them
also which sleep in Jesus will God BRING WITH HIM". This means
that when Christ returns to resurrect believers bodies at the second
coming, He brings our spirits and souls with Him from heaven

6. Revelation 6:9-10 -- "I saw
under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the Word of
God ... they cried with a loud voice saying..."

7. Isaiah 14:9-10 -- "Hell from
beneath ... stirs up the dead for thee. All they shall speak and
say to thee."

8. Ezekiel 32:21 -- "The strong
among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell ..."

9. Ezekiel 32:30-31 -- "The
Zidonians which are gone down with the slain ... Pharaoh shall see
them and shall be comforted, even Pharaoh and all his army slain
by the sword."

10. Luke 16:19-31 -- the rich man
and Lazarus who had died spoke to each other.

According to White and SDAs, Christ
acquired a sinful nature. This is false. Christ had a sinless human
nature. Christ took our sin punishment, not our sin nature.

4. LOSS OF SALVATION

"Now while our Great High Priest
is making atonement for us, we should seek to become perfect in Christ."
(The Great Controversy, E.G. White, 1911, p. 623).

SDAs teach that though saved by grace,
we are kept saved by keeping the Law. This is partial atonement. Therefore,
to stay saved according to SDAs, we must continue to keep the Sabbath,
the 10 Commandments and pay the tithe.

5. INVESTIGATIVE JUDGMENT

Investigative
judgment means no assurance
of salvation. According to SDAs, beginning on October 22, 1844, Christ
entered upon the "judgment phase" of His ministry, whereby
He blots out sin. The SDA "Investigative Judgment" doctrine
rests on Ellen White's claimed revelation that Christ entered the
Holy of Holies not at His ascension, but in 1844 (The Great Controversy,
p.362-373).

Hebrews 9:12 contradicts White's theory:
"by His own blood he entered (past tense) in once (not in 1844)
into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.' Hebrews
9:12, 25.

"... now once in the end of the
world hath (past) he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of
himself" (v.26).

SDAs teach that Christ transferred
the record of believers sins to the heavenly sanctuary, which will
be finally cleansed at the conclusion of the Investigative Judgment,
their day of atonement.

Mrs. White says in "Patriarchs
and Prophets", p. 357, this heresy: "The blood of Christ,
while it was to release the repentant sinner from the condemnation
of the law, was not to cancel the sin. It would stand on record in
the sanctuary until the final atonement."

Hence SDAs sins are not cancelled or
forgiven yet. What a worry. No wonder they have no assurance of salvation
until the imaginary Investigative Judgment is finished.

Q: If Christ can create the universe
in 6 days, why does he take from 1844 until now to investigate the
books? Is Christ a slow reader?

These verses show the Investigative
Judgment to be false:

"The Lord knoweth them that
are His." (2 Timothy 2:19)

"I know my sheep." (John
10:14)

"cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
(1 John 1:9)

"he had by himself purged our
sins." (Hebrews 1:3)

"yet now hath he reconciled
..." (Colossians 1:21)

"having forgiven you all trespasses."
(Colossians 2:13)

Christ's judgments are AFTER he returns,
not BEFORE He returns: "When the Son of Man shall come in his
glory ... then shall he sit upon the throne of His glory: and before
Him shall be gathered all nations." (Matthew 25:31-32)

Hebrews 4:13 exposes the SDA limitation
on Christ's omniscience: "Neither is there any creature that
is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened
unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do."

Since Jesus knows all cases already,
why must He investigate?

6. SATAN AS THE SCAPEGOAT FOR OUR
SINS

White says in TGC page 422: "When
Christ, by virtue of His own blood, removes the sins of His people
from the heavenly sanctuary at the close of His ministration, He will
place them upon satan, who, in the execution of the judgment, must
bear the final penalty."

Satan, according to SDA's, becomes
the scapegoat of Leviticus 16. This lack of clear distinction between
the forgiveness of sins at salvation, and the blotting out of sins
at some time in the future, makes it impossible for anyone to know,
even at death, whether he is saved or not.

SDAs are not allowed to experience
assurance of salvation, because there would be no pressure for them
to keep the Old Testament law and Sabbath as interpreted by Ellen
White.

Having the sins of all men laid on
satan, assigns to satan an indispensable role in the blotting out
of sins. This nullifies the all-sufficiency of the finished work of
Christ.

7. ANOTHER GOSPEL

The Investigative
Judgment and Scapegoat
theories are "another Gospel" that Paul warns us about in
Galatians 1:8-9. Paul places a curse on those preaching a false gospel
such as SDAs.

8. THE MARK OF THE BEAST

SDAs believe that Sunday keeping will
be the mark of the Beast of Revelation 13:16-18.

White says in TGC, page 449: "But
when Sunday observance shall be enforced by law, and the world shall
be enlightened concerning the obligation of the true Sabbath, then
whoever shall transgress the command of God, to obey a precept which
has no higher authority than that of Rome, will thereby honor popery
above God. He is paying homage to Rome and to the power which enforces
the institution ordained by Rome. He is worshipping the beast and
his image. As men then reject the institution which God has declared
to be the sign of His authority, and honor in its stead that which
Rome has chosen as the token of her supremacy, they will thereby accept
the sign of allegiance to Rome--'the mark of the beast.' And it is
not until the issue is thus plainly set before the people, and they
are brought to choose between the commandments of God and the commandments
of men, that those who continue in transgression will receive 'the
mark of the beast.'"

This is not rightly dividing the word
of truth (2 Timothy 2:15). This shows SDAs careless, deceitful handling
of Scripture.

9. SDA'S ARE VERY CONFUSED ON PROPHECY
SUBJECTS

SDAs think that God has finished with
Israel. Romans 11:2 and 25 contradict this idea. To SDAs, much of
Revelation had been fulfilled by 500 AD. They don't understand Daniel's
70 week prophecy. (Daniel 9:24-27)